August 2015 Mystery Tool E

No conclusive identification. Robert Scholz, Elmo, Missouri, believes it to be a bearing/hub puller. Dean Delavan, Cincinnatus, New York, and Richard Bader, Middletown, New York, believe this to be a chain repair tool. “A chain could be pulled together with this,” Dean says, “even with some tension on it, while a repair link was installed.” Photo submitted by Don Schroeder, Berger, Missouri.

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Columnist Sam Moore sent a couple of photos to illustrate his contention that Item E from the May 2015 issue is in fact a bushel counter from a threshing machine. A counter is shown on this Hart Junior grain weigher on a 22- by 38-inch McCormick-Deering separator. “At one time I owned a Case thresher,” Sam says, “and it had the identical setup.” He also sent a photo of an acremeter on an older Oliver grain drill. “Most I’ve seen were very similar to this,” he says.